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Post date: 06/09/2016
Old Landsdowne Road used to make a sharp right and left turn before it carried on eastward. Ottery Road joined this dogleg from the south and reinforced its importance as a junction for this area. Public institutions such as the post office and police station, where located near this junction. The western edge of Ottery Road has been fairly extensively built up with houses. The eastern side has the well-preserved farmhouse on Philippi Plaas farm. The houses vary in size and architectural detail. Some are large houses built between the 1920s and 1930s in the gabled “Victorian” and Cape Dutch revival type with substantial verandahs. Some houses where built very close to the road whereas other have large front gardens. The houses generally have intrinsic significance and create a memorable urban streetscape in this farming context.
The present condition of almost all of the houses is quite poor as they no longer are used as houses but are being used as businesses such as car wreck lots and building material storage yards.